English Explanatory Dictionary

halt

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To limp; move with a limping gait.
  2. To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
  3. To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
  4. To waver.
  5. To falter.
verb
  1. To stop marching.
  2. To stop either temporarily or permanently.
  3. To bring to a stop.
  4. To cause to discontinue.
noun
  1. A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
  2. A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
adj
  1. Lame, limping.
noun
  1. Lameness; a limp.
noun
  1. A small railroad station, usually unstaffed or with very few staff, and with few or no facilities.
noun
  1. Acronym of hungry, angry, lonely, (or) tired.

Pronunciation

/hɒlt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-halt.wav /hɔːlt/ /hɔlt/ /hɑlt/

Word forms

halt halts halting halted more halt most halt

Etymology

From Middle English halten, from Old English healtian (“to be lame, walk with a limp”), from Proto-West Germanic *haltōn, related to *halt. English usage in the sense of 'make a halt' is from the noun. Cognate with North Frisian halte, Swedish halta.

Synonyms

brake desist stay immobilize terminate shut down stop pause freeze break off moratorium recess endpoint terminus hiatus close

Derived words

haltable unhalted call a halt grind to a halt half-halt haltless Sarsden Halt foothalt haltkeeper
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